#THE POLICE ACT, 1949 
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##ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 
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SECTIONS 

1. Short title, extent and commencement. 
2. Definition. 
3. Constitution of general police-district embracing two or more Union territories. 
4. Constitution of one police force for general police-district. 
5. Superintendence and administration of police. 
6. Application of the Police Act, 1861. 
7. Saving. 



#THE POLICE ACT, 1949

##ACT NO. 64 OF 1949 

[27th December, 1949.] 

An Act to provide for the constitution of a general police-district embracing two or more Union 
  territories and for the establishment of a police force therefor. 

  WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the constitution of a general police-district embracing two or 
more Union territories and for the establishment of a police force therefor; 

It is hereby enacted as follows:— 

1. **Short title, extent and commencement.**—(1) This Act may be called the Police Act, 1949. 

(2) It extends to all the Union territories. 

(3) It shall come into force in a Union territory on such date as the Central Government may, by 
notification in the Official Gazette, appoint in this behalf for such territory. 

2. **Definition.**—In  this  Act  “general  police-district”  means  the  general  police-district  constituted 
under section 3. 

3. **Constitution  of  general  police-district  embracing  two  or  more  Union  territories.**— 
Notwithstanding anything contained in the Police Act, 1861 (5 of 1861), the Central Government may, by 
notification  in  the  Official  Gazette,  constitute  a  general  police-district  embracing  two  or  more Union 
territories. 

4. **Constitution of one police force for general police-district.**—The entire police establishment in a 
general police-district shall be one police force and shall consist of such number of officers and men and 
shall be constituted in such manner as the Central Government may, by order, direct. 

5. **Superintendence and administration of police.**—(1) The superintendence of  the  police 
throughout a general police-district shall vest in, and be exercised by, the Central Government. 

(2) The administration of the said police force shall vest in an officer, appointed in this behalf by the 
Central Government, who shall exercise in respect of that police force such of the powers exercisable by 
an Inspector-General of Police under the Police Act, 1861 (5 of 1861), as the Central Government may, 
by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf. 

6. **Application  of  the  Police  Act,  1861.**—Save  as  otherwise  expressly  provided  in  this  Act,  the 
provisions of the Police Act, 1861 (5 of 1861), shall apply to the police force constituted for the general 
police-district as if it were one police force constituted for a State, and members of the said police force 
shall  have, in every part of any territory which  is  included  in  the  general  police-district,  the  same 
powers,  duties  and  privileges,  and  shall  be  subject  to  the  same  liabilities,  as  they  would  have  had,  or 
would have been subject to, as police officers if they had formed a police establishment under one State 
Government. 

7. **Saving.**—Nothing  in  this  Act  shall  be  deemed  to  affect  the  provisions  contained  in  the  Delhi 
Special Police Establishment Act, 1946 (25 of 1946).